Part __1_( Avars; nomads of the steppe
and nomads of the sea; rule by professional warrior and merchant elites; charismatic
leaders usually living in towns before coming to power; leader's retinue -
the Germanic comitatus, the Old Turkic buyruq, the Hunnic boyla-r;
military slavery systems - the Mamlūks of Egypt/Syria, or the Ottoman
qulluq; military settlements - the Russian Kazak; Pseudo-Avars)

Part __2_( the name «Slav»;
Jordanes;
Οὖννοι, Σκλαβηνοί, Ἄνται; Venethi; Vinidarii;
the Slavic and the Turkic linguae francae of the 500 AD )

Part __4_( the Sclaveni as a
post-Gothic institution;
the
Σκλάβοι/Σκλαβηνοί
as the new military units
for the new pax-builders in the steppe - the Proto-Bulgars, after the Germanic
tribal withdrawal to Italy/Gaul; all Proto-Bulgarian branches have their
own Sklavin-/Ṣ(a)qlab;
the Khazar pax; the five Sklavin bands attacking Thessalonica and their
Hunno-Iranian names which reflect the Ponto-Caspian milieu of the time;
Proto-Bulgarian etymology of Sklavin- / Slav-;
the Sklavins as a new, amphibious, type of troops after the rise of
Constantinople; the
Sklavins and the Avar pax )

Part __5_( nomadic paxes - Säbirs,
(Pseudo)-Avars, and their need for manpower; a Slavic lingua franca
developing in the military camps of the Avar pax; Germanic cultural
borrowings in «Common Slavic» from the Winidi; Serbs and Croats -
successor states after the demise of the Avar Pax )